Lectures and Events
The Religion Department offers lectures and other events.
Upcoming Events
Join playwright Mahesh Dattani, guest faculty, and the student cast of Dance Like a Man, for a compelling play reading and conversation exploring the dynamic intersection of performance and politics in modern India.
This event is free and open to the public.
Vassar celebrates Soweto with a screening of Sifiso Khanyile’s critically acclaimed documentary Uprize!, followed by a faculty roundtable featuring Professors Mia Mask, Ismail Rashid, and Samson Opondo, along with local activist and South African native Dr. Ereshnee Naidu. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Mariam Rashid.
Campus community only, please.
Writer Iman Humaydan and Academic-Translator Michelle Hartman in conversation.
This event is free and open to the public.
Previous Lecture Archive
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Onaje Woodbine
“Who’s Got Next? A Black Hoops Liberating Spirituality
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Kathryn Lofton
The Present Life of Blasphemy: Kanye West in American Popular Culture
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Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
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Robert Orsi
Religious Dimensions of the Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis.
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Lila Abu-Lughod
Framing Islam: “Violent Extremism” and the Rise of Securofeminism
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Josef Sorett
Between Blessings & Light Beams: Surfing the Sacred/Secular Divide in Black Popular Music
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Thomas Lewis
Discipline, freedom, and the formation of the modern subject
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Hamza Yusuf
The Arts of Freedom: Protecting the Mind in an Age of Mass Media
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Wendy Doniger
The Mythology of Women and their Jewelry
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Sayed Kashua
Arab Labor: An Evening with Sayed Kashua
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Joshua Dubler
From Black Muslim to Salaf : The Evolution of Islam in an American Prison
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Stacey Floyd-Thomas ’91
The Color Line and the Culture Wars: Religion, Education and Sub-rosa Morality in the Age of Obama
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Judith Butler
Martin Buber’s Two Zionisms and the Question of Palestine
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Talal Asad, Ph.D.
Thinking About the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics
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Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
“Pragmatism and the Challenges of Post-Soul Politics”
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Lama Surya Das
Buddhism in America
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Cornell West
Restoring Hope
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David Chidester
“Blood Money: Elementary Forms of the Political Economy of the Sacred”
